Professor Alexis Jay (Correspondence)

Part of Urgent Question – in the Scottish Parliament at 4:59 pm on 10 December 2025.

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Photo of Natalie Don Natalie Don Scottish National Party 4:59, 10 December 2025

For clarity, last week we announced that Professor Alexis Jay has been appointed as the independent chair of the national child sexual abuse and exploitation strategic group. We also announced that the Care Inspectorate and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland will lead an independent national review of responses to group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation. In support of that work, Professor Jay met the chief inspector of constabulary and senior officials from the Care Inspectorate to offer her expertise and to progress that work at pace. Further detail on that will be set out in the Government’s statement next week.

Once that independent national review is complete, the group, which is chaired by Professor Jay, as I have just stated, will then consider the findings and provide further advice to ministers on next steps.

On Ms McNeill’s second point, I will have to come back to her with the details.